The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-06-14

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'em home three or four days ago.
They've probably gone into the stove
or into the cart of some peddler."
''Mr. Bowser, I'll take my oath there
hasn't been rivet in this house sin, e
We moved in. What could we use rivet:
for?"
J ''Do YOU remember the night
brought home that bottle of wine:
Didn't take a small package out OF
my pocket and put it on that table. and
didn't afterwards get the tack-hammer
and put a strip on the kitchen Window
"Oh-yes."
''Oh, you remember. do your
''But you didn't have rivetS in that
package-they were inch brads, and
they are right in the stand drawer.
Why didn't you say brads. Mr.. Bowsera'
"WhO said rivets?''
"Why. you did"
Don't you suppose know the differ
ence between rivets and brads?'
Certainly"
"Then don't try to make fool of
me! When | asked you for the brads |
didn't mean rivetS. If you don't know
which from which you'd better learn"
Mr.. BOwser was using his tape-line
in the garnet the other day. and when
| went up and found it strung about
reeled it up and laid it on window
siu. About ten O'clock the next fore
noon he came rushing in with the ex-
clamation:
mice neighbOrhOOd, this Isl You
were bound and determined to locate
up here, and now you must take the
consequencesr'
''What is il, Mr.. BOwser?'
'Ileft my tape-line on that saw-horse
in the back yard yesterday, and some
human fiend slid in last night and stole
it. 1t was by your advice that ! came
up here and invested $40, 900 in a house,
and this is the resulti'
Weren't You using the tape-line in
the house Yesterday"
"No. ma ann
didn't You leave it up in the gar
ret?'
"Do you think I've suddenly lost my
memory! Mrs. Bowser, you talk to me
as if | was half-idiotr'
went up and got the tape-line and
brought it down to him. He was
caught. but what did he do but assume
an air of awful dignity and say:
Mrs. BOwser, don't you never dare
to play any such trick on me again! A
joke is joke. but when you sneak into
the yard and carry my tape-line up
into the garnet it is going altogether
too fart
/ suppose there are men who keep
some track of their hats, gloves, rub
bers, etc, when at home. but Mr.. Bow
ser isn't of that kind. Each morning
after breakfast L am prepared for the
exclamation:
There! Some of you have been fool
ing with my hat!''
isn't it on the hall-tree?'
eff it was would / stand here asking
for it? | don't think I've gone blind
yet.
Didn't you leave it in the sitting
room?"
.'Of course / didn't! | hung il up
here a. | came home. and some of YOU
have probably been using it to store
potatoes in"
The hat is found on chair in the
sitting-room, just where he placed it.
and after more grumbling he goes into
the hall for his rubbers and shouts
back:
"They are goner'
"What?r
"My rubbersi I'll be hanged if I'll
stand this thing much longer. You or
the cook have got to let my rubbers
alone or I'll know the reason whyr'
care you sure you left 'em there?"
"Am sure I'm alive! You've prob
ably cut 'em up to make door-hinges or
some fancy nonsense"
Here they are, Mr.. Bowser. You
remember you took 'em off by the
radiator rs you stood telling me about
the railroad accident"
Il don't remember any thing of the
sort. / suppose my gloves are down
in the coal-bin, and my scarf has been
given to the boys To play horse with.
I'll come in by way of the barn after
this. and when take my things off I'll
lock EN- up and slip the key down my
boot leo. - Detroit Free Press.